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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781003130093 , 9781000917895 , 9780367655570 , 9780367655655
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (162 p.)
    Series Statement: Materializing Culture
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; anthropology ; Materiality ; sociological studies ; sociology
    Abstract: The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Drawing on over 15 years of original, empirical research, it builds on growing research on the everyday, and unites the established field of material culture and materiality with emerging sociological studies exploring notions of nothing and the unmarked. The chapters cover topics such as lost property, museum curation, plastic microfibres, thrift, music and even hair, illuminating how invisible and intangible materials conjure memories, meanings and identities, inextricably binding us to other people, places and things. In turn, the book also engages with issues of sustainability and consumption, raising questions regarding society’s increasing need for material accumulation and posing some alternatives.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Arizona Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780816547357 , 9780816547340
    Language: English
    DDC: 305.8984
    Keywords: Society & culture: general ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Indigenous peoples ; Sociology ; Anthropology
    Abstract: Cultural understandings of well-being often differ from scientific measures such as health, happiness, and affluence. For the Indigenous A'uwẽ (Xavante) people in the tropical savannas of Brazil, special forms of intimate and antagonistic social relations, camaraderie, suffering, and engagement with the environment are fundamental aspects of community wellness. Anthropologist James R. Welch transparently presents ethnographic insights from his long-term fieldwork in two A'uwẽ communities. He addresses how distinctive constructions of age organization contribute to social well-being in an era of major ecological, economic, and sociocultural change. Welch shows how A'uwẽ perspectives on the human life cycle help define ethnic identity, promote cultural resilience, and encourage the betterment of youth. They provide frameworks that people may creatively mobilize to responsibly and respectfully engage with others at different stages of life. They also motivate people to access and manage landscape resources essential to the social construction of good living. Through careful analysis, Welch shows how contemporary traditional peoples can foster enthusiasm for service to family and community amid dominant cultures that prioritize individual well-being. This book is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in sociocultural anthropology, Indigenous cultures, health and culture, and human ecology.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : UCL Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781800084100 , 9781800084117
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Ageing with Smartphones
    DDC: 305.260951
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Communication studies ; Urban communities ; Media studies ; Sociology & anthropology ; Anthropology ; Communication Studies ; Urban Studies ; Technology
    Abstract: If we want to understand contemporary China, the key is through understanding the older generation. This is the generation in China whose life courses almost perfectly synchronised with the emergence and growth of the 'New China' under the rule of the Communist Party (1949). People in their 70s and 80s have double the life expectancy of their parents' generation. The current oldest generation in Shanghai was born in a time when the average household could not afford electric lights, but today they can turn their lights off via their smartphone apps. Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the 'two revolutions' experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We find that we can only explain the smartphone revolution if we first appreciate the long-term consequences of these people's experiences during the communist revolutions. The context of this book is a wide range of dramatic social transformations in China, from the Cultural Revolution to the individualism and Confucianism in Digital China. Supported by detailed ethnographic material, the observations and analyses provide a panoramic view of the social landscape of contemporary China, including topics such as the digital and everyday life, ageing and healthcare, intergenerational relations and family development, community building and grassroots organizations, collective memories and political attitudes among ordinary Chinese people.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Berghahn Books | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781805390541 , 9781800738423
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Forced Migration
    DDC: 305.8927567073
    Keywords: Refugees & political asylum ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; Sociology ; Anthropology
    Abstract: The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 20 March 2003 and 30 September 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen Iraqis who resettled in the US after 2003. It examines the long war against Iraq that began in 1991 and the decisions some Iraqis made to leave their homes and seek refuge in the United States. The book also delves into the possibilities for belonging and cultural exchange for this cohort of Iraqis and their political engagement with non-profit organizations, advocacy, and activism against the 2017 Travel Ban.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar][Verlag nicht ermittelbar] | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783161597558 , 9783161597541
    Language: German
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Stadt ; Urbanität ; Muße ; Kultur ; Society & culture: general ; Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Beschleunigung, Zeitverdichtung und Effizienz sind oft genannte Schlagworte unserer Gegenwart, die sich aufs Engste mit der Stadt verbinden. Hektik und Geschäftigkeit im urbanen Raum scheinen Menschen zu Funktionsträgern zu verwandeln. Die Brüchigkeit dieser vorherrschenden Vorstellung zeigt sich aber bereits an Figuren wie der des Flaneurs, der sich gerade im Getriebe der Großstadt gelassen bewegt. Auch scheinbar gegenläufige Tendenzen lassen sich erkennen: Orte wie Stadtparks oder Museen suggerieren ebenso Refugien der Entschleunigung wie eine wachsende 'Erholungsindustrie'. Im selben Moment können aber solche Angebote wieder den Mechanismen der Zweckgebundenheit und der Selbstoptimierung unterliegen. Der Sammelband widmet sich diesen komplexen Fragen und ambivalenten Befunden und beleuchtet erstmals aus geistes-, kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive mögliche Freiräume der Muße im urbanen Raum.
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    ISBN: 9780367374754 , 9780367374778
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 p.)
    Additional Information: Enthalten in The Siberian World
    DDC: 306.0957
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; Regional studies ; Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental history, political science, and sociology
    Abstract: In pre-Soviet and early Soviet times, the northern areas of East Siberia and the Russian Far East that today are crossed by the Baikal-Amur Mainline were more or less exclusively the domain of semi-nomadic Evenki reindeer herders and rarely traversed by Russian or other European travelers. The decision to build a railroad line through this region during the 1970s and 1980s could not but have tremendous social, demographic, and ecological impacts. The specific impacts of the BAM cannot be understood, however, without considering the political and economic environments in which construction took place. This chapter is based on archival materials and interviews collected during multiple fieldwork visits during the 2010s, with a focus on the city of Tynda, the “capital” of the BAM, as well as the city Severobaikal’sk and the town of Novaia Chara along the railroad, and the Indigenous villages of Pervomaiskoe and Chapo-Ologo located not far from the BAM. The chapter’s aim is to provide tentative answers to the title question and to explore the opportunities and constraints, or “affordances,” of infrastructure as an agent of change.
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    ISBN: 9781800080782 , 9781800080799 , 9781800080805 , 9781800080812 , 9781800080829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (523 p.)
    DDC: 305.23086912
    Keywords: Migration, immigration & emigration ; Age groups: children ; Sociology ; Anthropology ; Human geography ; migration;refugees;children;families;care politics;multidisciplinary research;multimodal outputs;mobility;(im)mobility;decolonisation
    Abstract: Children feature centrally in the ubiquitous narratives of ‘migration crises’. They are often depicted as essentially vulnerable and in need of special protections, or suspiciously adult-like and a threat to national borders. At the same time, many voices, experiences, and stories are rarely heard, especially about children on the move within the global South. This bilingual book, written in English and Spanish, challenges simplistic narratives to enrich perspectives and understanding. Drawing on collaborations between young (im)migrants, researchers, artists and activists, this collection asks new questions about how crises are produced, mobility is controlled, and childhood is conceptualised. Answers to these questions have profound implications for resources, infrastructures, and relationships of care. Authors offer insights from diverse global contexts, painting a rich and insightful tapestry about childhood (im)mobility. They stress that children are more than recipients of care and that the crises they face are multiple and stratifying, with long historical roots. Readers are invited to understand migration as an act of concern and love, and to attend to how the solidarities between citizens and ‘others’, adults and children, and between children, are understood and forged.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780367374754 , 9780367374778
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (29 p.)
    Additional Information: Enthalten in The Siberian World
    DDC: 306.0957
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Regional studies ; Siberia, Anthropology, Siberian studies
    Abstract: Overview of the volume, its contents and an examination of the discipline of Siberian Studies as a whole...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781032007762 , 9781032007786
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 p.)
    Additional Information: Enthalten in Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; media anthropology
    Abstract: The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology provides a broad overview of the widening and flourishing area of media anthropology, and outlines key themes, debates, and emerging directions. The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology draws together the work of scholars from across the globe, with rich ethnographic studies that address a wide range of media practices and forms. Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into three parts: Histories, Approaches, Thematic Considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, participation, and social change, as well as production and access to information and knowledge. This volume considers new developments, and highlights the ways in which anthropology can contribute to the study of the human condition and the social processes in which media are entangled. This is an indispensable teaching resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and an essential text for scholars working across the areas that media anthropology engages with, including anthropology, sociology, media and cultural studies, internet and communication studies, and science and technology studies.
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    ISBN: 9781003283669 , 9781000845013 , 9781032229973 , 9781032255149
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)
    Series Statement: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; Social and cultural anthropology
    Abstract: This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why and with what consequences diversely situated groups of people – many of whom operate on radically different premises to professional anthropologists – make comparisons, above all, between themselves and real or imagined others. What motivates people to compare, what techniques or logics do they employ, and what are the most likely outcomes – both intended and unintended? How do comparative practices reflect, reinforce or refuse uneven relations of power? And finally, what can a rejuvenated comparative anthropology learn from the anthropology of comparison? The volume develops a dialogue between scholars with long- term ethnographic engagement in a variety of contexts around the world and is particularly valuable reading for those interested in anthropological methodology and theory.
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    New York : Berghahn | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781800739512 , 9781800737792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Transnational girlhoods volume 5
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Age groups: children ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Gender studies: women ; Social Science ; Children's Studies ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social ; Social Science ; Women's Studies
    Abstract: As seen in previous pandemics, girls and young women are particularly vulnerable as social issues such as homelessness, mental healthcare, access to education, and child labor are often exacerbated. The Girl in the Pandemic considers what academics, community activists, and those working in local, national, and global NGOs are learning about the lives of girls and young women during pandemics. Drawing from a range of responses during the pandemic including first person narratives, community ethnographies, and participatory action research, this collection offers a picture of how the COVID-19 pandemic played out in eight different countries.
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    ISBN: 9781800736979 , 9781805390473
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.32096761
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Development studies ; Social Science ; Ethnic Studies ; African Studies ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social ; Social Science ; Developing & Emerging Countries
    Abstract: Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Land wrangles among neighbours and relatives are widespread. The growing commodification of land challenges ideals of entrustment for future generations. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions and the management of conflicts. They show how access to land is governed through intimate relations of gender, generation and belonging.
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    ISBN: 9781032007762 , 9781032007786
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (14 p.)
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; games, game design, anthropology
    Abstract: This chapter is a consideration of how we may approach the question of remediation in digital games, suggesting that we recognize how digital game remediation incorporates what are often more obvious elements from analogue game design into the more implicit infrastructure of digital contexts. Additionally, such remediation often exhibits “hypomediacy,” the denial of game design mediation, with important consequences for how useful digital games have become for institutional projects and their claims about reality. Anthropological treatments of ritual, and specifically how the engagement of audiences with ambiguous performances produces the real for participants, point toward important implications for digital games, where the infrastructural game elements may underwrite a similar process of reality construction through player performance. My overall suggestion is that when we give the cultural form of game its due (as we have for ritual and bureaucracy) – that is, when we incorporate a robust consideration of game features into our analyses – we will be in a better position to illuminate the ways in which our engagement with digital infrastructure is fraught with claims about the real.
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    ISBN: 9781003175605 , 9781032007762 , 9781032007786
    Language: English
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; media anthropology
    Abstract: The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology provides a broad overview of the widening and flourishing area of media anthropology, and outlines key themes, debates, and emerging directions. The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology draws together the work of scholars from across the globe, with rich ethnographic studies that address a wide range of media practices and forms. Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into three parts: Histories Approaches Thematic Considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, participation, and social change, as well as production and access to information and knowledge. This volume considers new developments, and highlights the ways in which anthropology can contribute to the study of the human condition and the social processes in which media are entangled. This is an indispensable teaching resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and an essential text for scholars working across the areas that media anthropology engages with, including anthropology, sociology, media and cultural studies, internet and communication studies, and science and technology studies.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : HAU Books | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780999157077
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.32
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: This title draws on Strathern’s interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and their access, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for proprietorship. How new relations come into being is among the many questions about property, ownership, and knowledge brought together here. Twenty years have not diminished interest in the book’s opening challenge: if one were inventing a method of enquiry by which to configure the complexity of social life, one might wish to invent something like the anthropologist’s ethnographic practice. A wide range of studies deliberately brings into conversation claims people make on one another through relations imagined in the form of body-substance along with the increasing visibility of conceptual or intellectual work as property. Wherever one lives, categories of knowledge are being dissolved and reformed at a tempo that calls for the lateral reflection afforded through the “ethnographic effect.”...
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    ISBN: 9781800734548 , 9781805390657
    Language: English
    DDC: 304.2509612
    Keywords: Conservation of the environment ; Human geography ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Nature ; Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Social Science ; Human Geography ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples’ responses and reactions to this warning as well as their attitudes to a gradual rise of sea level and questions why people seemed so unconcerned about this and the accompanying loss of land. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.
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    ISBN: 9780429354663 , 9780367374778 , 9780367374754
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Routledge Worlds
    DDC: 306.0957
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Regional studies ; Siberia, Anthropology, Siberian studies
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    ISBN: 9781032007762 , 9781032007786
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 p.)
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; data centres, cloud, labour, anthropology, digital labour
    Abstract: Data centres underpin the architecture of cloud computing and form the operational backbone for digital communications and internet media. Yet, despite the rhetoric of the “on demand”, “real-time” and “instant access” that characterises online consumption, it takes continuous work and upkeep to ensure that the online services provided by data centres remain constantly available, ready to be streamed or downloaded at the click of a button. This chapter follows the work of those tasked with operating and maintaining cloud infrastructure. It draws from fieldwork in a London-based data centre to explore the lived experiences of data centre labour that form the conditions of possibility for cloud media cultures and digital societies. Contributing to discussions of media infrastructures and digital labour, this chapter presents “maintenance” as an essential, but overlooked, form of media labour. If production, consumption and distribution have been understood as key media processes, less attention has been paid to maintenance, and to the people who operate and fix media infrastructure.
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    ISBN: 9781003189978 , 9781032019154 , 9781032039664
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (316 p.)
    DDC: 177.7
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    Keywords: Othering ; Einfühlung ; Interaktion ; Mensch ; Umwelt ; Anthropology ; animal;anthropology;care;connection;cooperation;culture;difference;different;empathise;empathy;encounters;feeling;fiction;history;human;imagination;interaction;interconnectedness;interdisciplinary;justice;othering;otherness;others;perception;psychology;robot;understanding
    Abstract: In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars, genocide, inequality, and staggering ecological collapse, some in the public and political arena have argued that we are in desperate need of greater empathy — be this with our neighbours, refugees, war victims, the vulnerable or disappearing animal and plant species. This interdisciplinary volume asks the crucial questions: How does a better understanding of empathy contribute, if at all, to our understanding of others? How is it implicated in the ways we perceive, understand and constitute others as subjects? Conversations on Empathy examines how empathy might be enacted and experienced either as a way to highlight forms of otherness or, instead, to overcome what might otherwise appear to be irreducible differences. It explores the ways in which empathy enables us to understand, imagine and create sameness and otherness in our everyday intersubjective encounters focusing on a varied range of "radical others" – others who are perceived as being dramatically different from oneself. With a focus on the importance of empathy to understand difference, the book contends that the role of empathy is critical, now more than ever, for thinking about local and global challenges of interconnectedness, care and justice.
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    ISBN: 9781032007762 , 9781032007786
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 p.)
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; digital content, media practice, ethnology
    Abstract: At the heart of many studies in media anthropology is an interest in media practices. While practice-oriented approaches have gained momentum as of late, there has been little discussion about how they can include particular “media texts” or “media content” into their research designs. This is especially true for digital content on social media platforms, such as digital images, captions, emojis, hashtags, and so on, which have become popular objects of ethnographic investigation. Though digital content has clear empirical value for ethnographic studies, researchers are unclear about how to approach it conceptually and methodologically. In the following chapter, I argue that digital content itself can be analysed as practice. Using my ethnographic study of digital practices at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe as an example, I show that digital content can be studied as routines in the interplay of human bodies, social and cultural conventions, and the affordances of digital media technologies. My practice approach does not read content as text; rather, it asks how the practices of its creators live on through digital content. This perspective offers a new way of conducting content analysis from an ethnographic perspective and expands the toolbox available for media anthropological research.
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    ISBN: 9781800738645 , 9781800736078
    Language: English
    DDC: 392.509515
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Sociology: birth ; Anthropology ; Sociology ; Asian Studies
    Abstract: Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan social lives. This book takes as its starting point the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley from the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.
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    ISBN: 9781003230922 , 9781032105161 , 9781032138183
    Language: English
    DDC: 305.42072
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Anthropology, social anthropology, culture, equality
    Abstract: This volume explores the processes of investigating cultures of equality and sets out an epistemological framework for generating a more just and response-able knowledge. It offers a tapestry of inventive, self-reflexive, collective, and situated praxis of conducting politically informed research. Such efforts contest—or occasionally reinvent—the social and cultural worlds that we currently inhabit, in an attempt at building cultures of equality across different locations and contexts. The book engages with the idea of producing knowledge with others, indicating the political potential of scientific practice and offering a view of knowledge as a collective affective-intellectual effort. It provides an inventory of creative engagements with concepts and methodologies enabling production of socially responsible knowledges. By critically exploring new possibilities of scientific inquiry, the contributors reflect on how knowledge can be generated to serve the political agenda of movements for equality and social justice. The chapters also elucidate different conceptualisations of and approaches to who the researcher is and how they interact with cultural and social worlds.
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    ISBN: 9781032105161 , 9781032138183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 p.)
    DDC: 305.42072
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Anthropology, social anthropology, culture, equality
    Abstract: This chapter aims to analyse feminist resistances to persuasion in visual discourse and to dissect several case studies in fiction and non-fiction Spanish films in order to highlight what we consider to be practices of feminist counter-visuality. Our theoretical genealogy starts with Adrienne Rich’s and Judith Fetterley’s claims for re-viewing and resisting readership. We then move from textual transgressions to the urge for visual transgressions expressed by feminist film theorists and practitioners. After discussing a classical example of persuasive visual discourse, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, and two instances of transgressive gazing by well-known feminist filmmakers Sally Potter and Jane Campion, we bring our argument to recent Spanish fiction and non-fiction cinema and close-read scenes from seven case studies as a basis to exploring how the alternative film discourses represented within them can operate as technologies of social response-ability and accountability in face of the challenges present in the current feminist agenda in Spain.
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    ISBN: 9781003036272101 , 9780367477363 , 9781032137766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 p.)
    Additional Information: Enthalten in Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia
    DDC: 304.2095
    Keywords: Applied ecology ; Religion & beliefs ; Anthropology ; Cosmopolitical Ecologies,Holy Mountain,Uninvited Guests,Political Ecology,Young Man,Mae Chaem,Natural Beauty,Reindeer Herders,Central Tibetan Administration,China Town,Political Ecology Approaches,Environmental Issues,Mountain Deities,Sacred Natural Sites,Human Nonhuman Assemblages,Progressive Contextualization,Blue Lake,Ultimate Ontological Status,Slow Science,Non-human Persons,Bhutanese Context
    Abstract: Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world. This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit them. Rather than treating sacred mountains, terrains and water sources as self-contained, esoteric religious phenomena, the authors consider them within critical 'cosmopolitical ecologies' framings in which non-human entities are engaged as actors in the socio-political arena. The chapters include case studies of healing springs recognized by governments, and sacred mountains that are addressed by heads of states and Communist Party cadres, or that speak to the faithful through spirit mediums in a politics of re-enchantment. Contributors explore the diverse ways in which non-human entities such as forest spirits, reindeer, mountains and Buddhist Masters of the Land are engaged by humans to navigate environmental change and address a range of ecological threats from large-scale mining to climate change. Cosmopolitical ecologies approaches encompass the healing power of topography as well as transformative intimacies with other-than-human beings such as sparrows within an Islamic eco-theological poetic setting. In this light the book observes dynamic and creative processes of cosmological innovation including the repurposing of ritual to address challenges such as the Covid-19 epidemic. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environment and society across disciplinary perspectives in general, and to anthropologists, human geographers, political ecologists, indigenous studies, area studies, environmental sciences and environmental humanities scholars in particular.
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    ISBN: 9781003036272 , 9780367477363 , 9781032137766
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Routledge Environmental Humanities
    DDC: 304.2095
    Keywords: Applied ecology ; Religion & beliefs ; Anthropology ; Cosmopolitical Ecologies,landscapes,mountains,terrains,water sources,socio-political,Holy Mountain,Young Man,Uninvited Guests,Cosmopolitical Ecologies,Central Tibetan Administration,Mae Chaem,Yul Lha,China Town,Limi Valley,Reindeer Herders,Je Khenpo,Sacred Natural Sites,Mountain Deities,Natural Beauty,Landscape Deities,Haze Crisis,Bull Camel,Bhutanese Context,Territorial Deities,Nonhuman Personhood,Contract Farming,Non-human Persons,Tibetan Landscapes,Political Ecology,Dpal Ldan
    Abstract: Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world. This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit them. Rather than treating sacred mountains, terrains and water sources as self-contained, esoteric religious phenomena, the authors consider them within critical 'cosmopolitical ecologies' framings in which non-human entities are engaged as actors in the socio-political arena. The chapters include case studies of healing springs recognized by governments, and sacred mountains that are addressed by heads of states and Communist Party cadres, or that speak to the faithful through spirit mediums in a politics of re-enchantment. Contributors explore the diverse ways in which non-human entities such as forest spirits, reindeer, mountains and Buddhist Masters of the Land are engaged by humans to navigate environmental change and address a range of ecological threats from large-scale mining to climate change. Cosmopolitical ecologies approaches encompass the healing power of topography as well as transformative intimacies with other-than-human beings such as sparrows within an Islamic eco-theological poetic setting. In this light the book observes dynamic and creative processes of cosmological innovation including the repurposing of ritual to address challenges such as the Covid-19 epidemic. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environment and society across disciplinary perspectives in general, and to anthropologists, human geographers, political ecologists, indigenous studies, area studies, environmental sciences and environmental humanities scholars in particular.
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    Helsinki : Helsinki University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789523690783 , 9789523690769
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
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    Keywords: Anthropology ; Geography ; History ; Sociology ; Location and place; Regional studies; Ethnography; Mediterranean
    Abstract: "Until today, anthropological studies of locality have taken primary interest in local subjects leading local lives in local communities. Through a shift of conceptual emphasis from locality to location, the present volume departs from previous preoccupations with identity and belonging. Instead, Locating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes that make locations and render them meaningful. In doing so, it stimulates debates on the interplay between location and region-making in history as well as anthropology. The volume’s deeply empirical contributions illustrate how historical, material, legal, religious, economic, political, and social connections and separations shape the experience of being located in the geographical space commonly known as the Mediterranean region. Drawing from research in Melilla, Lampedusa, Istanbul, Nefpaktos/Lepanto, Tunisia, Beirut, Marseille, and elsewhere, the volume articulates location through the overlapping and incorporation of multiple social and historical processes. Individual contributions are linked by the pursuit to rethink the conceptual frames deployed to study the Mediterranean region. Together, the volume’s chapters challenge strict geopolitical renderings of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa and suggest how the ‘Mediterranean’ can function as a meaningful anthropological and historical category if the notion of ‘location’ is reinvigorated and conceptualised anew."...
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    ISBN: 9780367458157 , 9781032263243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 p.)
    DDC: 305.89457
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Indigenous peoples ; Arctic, Sámi, indigenous, politics, free speech, identity, online, hate speech
    Abstract: Over the past decades, online hate speech against the Indigenous Sámi people has sharply proliferated, and in each Nordic country, it is now considered a problem requiring counter-measures and further study. This chapter employs Lynne Tirrell’s notion of toxic speech to examine anti-Sámi hate speech that is specific to the political terrain in Finland. There, such speech is particularly common in debates which centre on criticism of the Sámi Parliament, voiced mainly by popular movements which promote political self-Indigenization to gain access in the Sámi Parliament’s electoral register. Although these movements make explicit use of academic knowledge production and discourses which highlight Sámi cultural revitalization and recovery, the study shows how, on the level of popular rhetoric and in the social media, the same discourses are operationalized to purposefully undermine Sámi peoplehood and rights, to denigrate any individual or institution which is seen to defend such rights, and to disseminate pejorative representations of the Sámi. The chapter ends with a short exploration of possible reasons which explain why this form of toxic speech has so far been particularly impervious to criticism and public exposure.
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    ISBN: 9781800736627 , 9781800737662
    Language: English
    DDC: 304.28
    Keywords: Rural communities ; Wildlife: general interest ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social Science ; Sociology ; Rural ; Nature ; Animals ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes, which are often romanticized as pure, good, and just, and perceived as protectors of those who are powerless, indigenous, and colonized. The book takes a new stance on sentient landscapes with the intention of dispelling the denial of “coevalness” represented by their scholarly romanticization.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Berghahn Books | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781800735675 , 9781800736689
    Language: English
    DDC: 304.8095
    Keywords: Migration, immigration & emigration ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social Science ; Emigration & Immigration ; Social Science ; Ethnic Studies ; Asian Studies ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. In exploring how the migratory process unfolds in different stages of migrants’ lives, the chapters in this collected volume broaden perspectives on mobility, offering insight into the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.
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    ISBN: 9781003025511 , 9780367458157 , 9781032263243
    Language: English
    DDC: 305.89457
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Indigenous peoples ; Arctic, Sámi, indigenous
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering valuable insights into how they live and see the world. The chapters examine a variety of social and cultural practices, and consideration is given to environment, legal and political conditions and power relations. The contributions by a range of experts of Sámi studies and Indigenous scholars are drawn from across the Sápmi region, which spans from central Norway and central Sweden across Finnish Lapland to the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Sámi perspectives, concepts and ways of knowing are foregrounded throughout the volume. The material connects with wider discussions within Indigenous studies and engages with current concerns relating to globalization, environmental and cultural change, Arctic politics, multiculturalism, postcolonialism and neoliberalism. The Sámi World will be of interest to scholars from a number of disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, history and political science.
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    ISBN: 9781800735934 , 9781805390640
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    DDC: 551.69113
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Conservation of the environment ; Climate change ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Arktis ; Nature ; Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Science ; Global Warming & Climate Change ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ‘the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners, indigenous scholars and international researchers, the book provides nuanced views of the social consequences of climate change and environmental risks across human and non-human realms.
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    ISBN: 978316 159685 , 9783161596841
    Language: German
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    Keywords: Muße ; Arbeit ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; European history ; General & world history ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; History ; Europe ; History ; World ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Muße wird gemeinhin als selbstbestimmte Zeit charakterisiert, die sich durch die Freiheit von Zwängen auszeichnet - Arbeit gilt dann schnell als ihr Gegenteil. Bei genauerer Analyse hingegen sind die Grenzen zwischen Muße und Arbeit keineswegs so scharf zu ziehen und ihre Beziehung zueinander stellt sich als deutlich komplexer heraus. Welche Spielräume bietet Arbeit für Muße? Inwiefern kann Muße Arbeit und Arbeit Muße sein? Die interdisziplinären Beiträge dieses Bandes liefern ein historisch, empirisch-ethnografisch und systematisch fundiertes Bild der jeweiligen gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung und der konkreten Ausprägungen produktiver Unproduktivität. Indem sie das Verhältnis von Muße und Arbeit differenziert bestimmen, tragen sie auch zur schärferen Analyse beider Konzepte bei.
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    ISBN: 9781914386268 , 9781914386275 , 9781914386282 , 9781914386251
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 p.)
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Communication studies ; Political structures: democracy ; Educational strategies & policy ; Political science & theory ; Sociology ; Neoliberalism ; Globalization ; Digital networks ; Democracy ; Critical theory ; Social media
    Abstract: This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance.
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    ISBN: 9781914386015 , 9781914386022 , 9781914386039 , 9781914386008
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (261 p.)
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    Keywords: Anthropozän ; Insel ; Anthropology ; Critical care surgery ; Environmental factors ; Human geography ; Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands ; Human growth & development ; Epistemology ; Ontology ; Entanglements ; Relationality ; Islands ; Anthropocene
    Abstract: A must read … a new analytical agenda for the Anthropocene, coherently drawing out the power of thinking with islands.' – Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University ‘This is an essential book. [The] analytics they propose … offer both a critical agenda for island studies and compass points through which to navigate the haunting past, troubling present, and precarious future.’ – Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawai’i, Manoa ‘All academic books should be like this: hard to put down. Informative, careful, sometimes devasting, yet absolutely necessary - if you read one book about the Anthropocene let it be this. You will never think of islands in the same way again.’ – Kimberley Peters, University of Oldenburg ‘ … a unique journey into the Anthropocene. Critical, generous and compelling’. — Nigel Clark, Lancaster University The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.
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    ISBN: 9781003085867 , 9780367652814 , 9781350127487 , 9781003085867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (302 p.)
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Anthropology
    Abstract: This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas of human experience that require a new analytical approach. The case studies draw from a range of contexts, including digital objects, infrastructure, data, extraterrestriality, ethnographic curation, and medical materiality. They include timely reappraisals of now-classical analytical models that have shaped the way we understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the artefact.
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    ISBN: 9783839456934 , 9783839456934 , 9783837656930
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    Keywords: Mead, Margaret ; Bateson, Gregory ; Geschichte 1930-1950 ; Kulturanthropologie ; Sozialanthropologie ; Wissenschaft ; Begriff ; Feldforschung ; Totalitarismus ; Bekämpfung ; History of the Americas ; History of science ; Social & cultural history ; Margaret Mead ; Gregory Bateson ; Anthropologie ; Kultur ; USA ; 20 ; Wissenschaftsgeschichte ; Kulturgeschichte ; Wissenschaft ; Amerikanische Geschichte ; Geschichte des 20 ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Anthropology ; Culture ; 20th Century ; History of Science ; Cultural History ; Science ; American History ; History of the 20th Century ; History ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Margaret Mead und Gregory Bateson gehörten in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren zu den führenden Vertretern der Cultural Anthropology in den USA. Die Anthropologie bot ihnen nicht nur einen Schlüssel, um das Verhältnis von »culture« und »personality« besser zu verstehen, sondern diente ihnen ebenso als Werkzeug, um die Haltung der amerikanischen Bevölkerung mit Blick auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg abzustimmen und ihre Feinde zu bekämpfen. So glaubte das Wissenschaftlerpaar daran, dass nur durch Arbeit an der Kultur der Aufbau einer friedlichen Welt gelingen könne. Diesen Selbst- und Weltdeutungspraktiken spürt Thilo Neidhöfer am Beispiel ihrer Ehe nach.
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    ISBN: 9781350125865 , 9781003087199
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (29 p.)
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    Keywords: Politische Entscheidung ; Forschung ; Zeit ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Staat ; Politische Anthropologie ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; Anthropology, Chronopolitics, Time
    Abstract: The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.
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    Abstract: The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.
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    ISBN: 9780262363389 , 9780262542340
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
    DDC: 306.730285
    Keywords: Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism ; Advertising & society ; Impact of science & technology on society ; dating apps ; hookup apps ; gender politics ; gender relations ; queer ; LGBTQ ; interpretive flexibility ; affordance ; networked publics ; sexual publics ; sex apps ; social apps ; hook-up apps ; location-aware ; location-based ; networking apps ; Grindr ; Tinder ; Blued ; Momo ; Rela ; feminism ; technofeminism ; leftover women ; gender performance ; gender performativity ; hegemonic masculinity ; sexual harassment ; sexual minorities ; affects ; heteronormativity ; social construction of technology ; interpretation ; publics ; digital media ; digital cultures ; mobile cultures ; China ; Chinese ; East Asia ; Global South
    Abstract: An examination of dating app culture in China, across user demographics—straight women, straight men, queer women, and queer men. In this exploration of dating app culture in China, Lik Sam Chan argues that these popular mobile apps are not merely a platform for personal relationships but also an emerging arena for gender and queer politics. Chan examines the opportunities dating apps present for women's empowerment and men's performances of masculinity, and he links experiences of queer dating app users with their vulnerable position as sexual minorities. He finds that dating apps are both portals to an exciting virtual world of relational possibilities and sites of power dynamics that reflect the heteronormativity and patriarchy of Chinese society. Drawing on in-depth interviews with urban users of such dating apps as Momo, Tantan, Blued, Aloha, Rela, and Lesdo, Chan proposes “networked sexual publics” as a unifying concept to capture the dynamics of dating app culture. Devoting a chapter to each of four publics—straight women, straight men, queer men, and queer women—Chan documents how relationships are shaped and transfigured by this emerging technology. He considers whether dating apps can be a feminist tool; explores straight men's self-presentation on the apps and their interactions with women they meet there; discusses the constant cycle of deleting and installing the same apps seen among queer men; and examines how popular lesbian dating apps may connect queer women to their communities. Finally, Chan maps possible paths for future intersectional, queer, and feminist scholarship on emerging communication technologies.
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Stadtentwicklung ; Umweltpolitik ; Feldforschung ; Urban communities ; Human geography ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Manchester ; Social Science ; Sociology ; Urban ; Social Science ; Human Geography ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.
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    Keywords: Politische Entscheidung ; Forschung ; Zeit ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Staat ; Politische Anthropologie ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; anthropology ; chronopolitics ; time
    Abstract: The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.
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    ISBN: 9781789206586 , 9781789206579
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    Abstract: The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state’s apparatus.
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    ISBN: 9781315316482 , 9781315316475 , 9781138230989 , 9780367777418 , 9781315316482
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 p.)
    DDC: 306.76
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Anthropology
    Abstract: This volume draws on the significance of the work of Marilyn Strathern in respect of its potential to queer anthropological analysis and to foster the reimagining of the object of anthropology. The authors examine the ways in which Strathern’s varied analytics facilitate the construction of alternative forms of anthropological thinking, and greater understanding of how knowledge practices of queer objects, subjects and relations operate and take effect. Queering Knowledge offers an innovative collection of writing, bringing about queer and anthropological syntheses through Strathern’s oeuvre. It will be relevant to scholars from anthropology as well as a number of other disciplines, including gender, sexuality and queer studies. *Winner of the 2020 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Edited Volume*...
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    Keywords: Politische Entscheidung ; Forschung ; Zeit ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Staat ; Politische Anthropologie ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; anthropology ; chronopolitics ; time
    Abstract: The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.
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    ISBN: 9780520341173 , 9780520974579 , 9780520974579
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (187 p.)
    DDC: 305.8688505195
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Black & Asian studies ; Religion: general ; anthropology ; Asian studies ; religion
    Abstract: "Peruvian migrant workers began arriving in South Korea in large numbers in the mid-1990s, eventually becoming one of the largest groups of non-Asians in the country. Migrant Conversions shows how despite facing unstable income and legal exclusion, migrants have come to see Korea as an ideal destination, sometimes even as part of their divine destiny. Faced with a forced end to their residence in Korea, Peruvians have developed strategies to transform themselves from economic migrants into heads of successful transnational families, influential church leaders, and cosmopolitan travelers. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 global financial crisis, Migrant Conversions explores the intersections of three types of conversions—monetary, religious, and cosmopolitan—to argue that migrants use conversions to negotiate the meaning of their lives in a constantly changing transnational context. As Peruvians carve out social spaces, they create complex and uneven connections between Peru and Korea that challenge a global hierarchy of nations and migrants. Exploring how migrants, churches, and nations change through processes of conversion reveals how globalization continues to impact people’s lives and ideas about their futures and pasts long after they have stopped moving or after a particular global moment has come to an end. “A model of what transnational ethnographic research can accomplish.” ELEANA J. KIM, author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging “With crisp prose and candid presence throughout the text, Vogel gives us the first book-length study of the experiences of non-Asian migrants in South Korea.” CAREN FREEMAN, author of Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea ERICA VOGEL is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Saddleback College."...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781350125827
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 p.)
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    Keywords: Politische Entscheidung ; Forschung ; Zeit ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Staat ; Politische Anthropologie ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; anthropology ; chronopolitics ; time
    Abstract: The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.
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    Cambridge : The MIT Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780262353168 , 9780262039918
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (440 p.)
    DDC: 304.2091732
    Keywords: Urban & municipal planning ; environmental studies ; environmental history ; urban ecology ; urban studies ; urbanism ; southern urbanism ; postcolonial studies ; worlding ; comparative urban environmentalism ; urban environmental history ; citizen science ; urban political ecology ; more-than-human ; infrastructure ; New Orleans ; urban ecosystems ; Louisiana ; hybridity ; Lagos ; Nigeria ; megacity ; contestation ; beautification ; urbanization ; landscape ; language ; literacy ; water ; landscape architecture ; urban design ; urban planning ; collectives ; political ecology ; affective ecology ; design-driven research ; speculation ; environmentalism ; conservation ; nature ; green cities ; San Francisco ; China ; volunteers ; environment ; citizen mobilization ; invasive species ; Delhi ; India ; green areas ; Berlin ; urban gardening ; South Africa ; Cape Town ; Rondevlei ; birds ; sanctuary ; Middlemiss ; Langley ; resilience ; ecological governance ; transformation ; experiments ; eco-urbanization ; rural transformation ; spatial planning ; dispossession ; situating ; articulating ; texturizing ; retrosembling ; Cordoba ; Baltimore
    Abstract: Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as “smart cities,” “eco-cities,” and “resilience,” and proposing a “science of cities” based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine how urban natures are part of—and are shaped by—cities and urbanization. Grounding Urban Natures offers case studies from cities on five continents that demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The contributors consider the diversity of urban natures, analyzing urban ecologies that range from the coastal delta of New Orleans to real estate practices of the urban poor in Lagos. They examine the effect of popular movements on the meanings of urban nature in cities including San Francisco, Delhi, and Berlin. Finally, they explore abstract urban planning models and their global mobility, examining real-world applications in such cities as Cape Town, Baltimore, and the Chinese “eco-city” Yixing. Contributors Martín Ávila, Amita Baviskar, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson, James Evans, Lisa M. Hoffman, Jens Lachmund, Joshua Lewis, Lindsay Sawyer, Sverker Sörlin, Anne Whiston Spirn, Lance van Sittert, Richard A. Walker...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781003085133 , 9781350002340 , 9781003085133
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    DDC: 302.33
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Social research & statistics ; Urban communities ; Anthropology;Social research and statistics;Urban communities
    Abstract: What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on their encounters with crowds. Each chapter examines a particular crowd or conception of crowdedness to provide an analysis of how, when, where—and with whom—crowds form in different contexts, as well as their purpose and the practical effect the experience has on both the participants and their environment. The wide selection of case studies ranges from the crowds that form every year during the Hajj, to New Year celebrations in China, commuters on the Delhi metro, public prayer in Nigeria, online mobs in Bangladesh, and the crowds that have emerged during protest movements in Thailand and Syria. Crowds makes a key contribution to establishing an anthropological theory of crowds and will be an essential read for both students and researchers.
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    Oakland : University of California Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780520301665
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 p.)
    DDC: 306.4846081109548
    Keywords: Asian history ; Religion: general ; Anthropology ; impersonation ; Kuchipudi ; brahmin masculinity ; Telugu ; South India ; Indian dance ; strī-vēṣam ; woman’s guise ; gender ; caste
    Abstract: Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork and performance analysis, this book centers on an insular community of Smarta brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India, who are required to don strī-vēṣam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. According to the hagiography of Siddhendra, the founding saint of Kuchipudi dance, every brahmin man from a hereditary Kuchipudi family must don strī-vēṣam at least once in his life, a prescription that still resonates in the village today. Impersonation, the term used to indicate the donning of gender guise (vēṣam), is not simply a performative mandate for Kuchipudi brahmin men but also a practice of power that creates normative ideals of brahmin masculinity in village performance and everyday life. However, the construction of brahmin masculinity against the backdrop of impersonation is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian “classical” dance tradition. By shifting from village to urban and transnational spaces, the book traces the technologies of normativity that create, sustain, and undermine normative ideals of gender, caste, and sexuality through the embodied practice of impersonation in contemporary South India.
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    Oakland : University of California Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780520298705
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 p.)
    DDC: 304.840635
    Keywords: Sociology ; Anthropology ; forced migration ; multi-sited ethnography ; Eritreans ; Europe ; immobility ; protracted displacement ; refugee movements ; imaginaries ; moral economies ; transnational families
    Abstract: Why, every year, tens of thousands of people are willing to risk their lives in perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea? Why do they face such an ordeal to reach European countries where their long-term prospects are often dismal? The Big Gamble answers these questions through a multi-sited ethnography with refugees, their families back, smugglers and relatives in the diaspora. By visiting family homes in Eritrea, living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan and Italy, the author untangles everyday challenges as well as images, desires and feelings of young Eritreans pursuing their desired destination in a context of protracted crisis and long-term displacement. Throughout the book the author shows the importance of recognizing the space for choices in contemporary refugee movements. It argues that imagination, morality and emotion are crucial elements to understand the trajectories and the motivations of those who bet not only their resources but also their lives to seek asylum in Europe.
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    ISBN: 9781474430333 , 9781474430357
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.0951
    Keywords: China ; Media and Communications ; Chinese ; cyberculture ; Lau ; participatory ; stardom ; transnational
    Abstract: As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, posting and sharing texts significantly easier, and by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans.
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    Durham, NC : Duke University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781478004301
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    Keywords: Körper ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Sicherheit ; Technologie ; Biometrie ; Grenzpolizeiliche Kontrolle ; Physical anthropology ; Anthropology ; Body ; Evidence ; Anthropology of Security ; Surveillance ; Forensic Anthropology ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as Evidence reveal how bodies have become critical sources of evidence that is organized and deployed to classify, recognize, and manage human life. Through global case studies that explore biometric identification, border control, forensics, predictive policing, and counterterrorism, the contributors show how security discourses and practices that target the body contribute to new configurations of knowledge and power. At the same time, margins of error, unreliable technologies, and a growing suspicion of scientific evidence in a “post-truth” era contribute to growing insecurity, especially among marginalized populations.
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    ISBN: 9781478002505
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    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; Waste ; Infrastructure ; Citizenship ; Neoliberalism ; Materiality ; Islam
    Abstract: Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on discourses of Islamic piety, garbage activists have provided a powerful language to critique a neoliberal mode of governing-through-disposability and assert rights to fair labor. In Garbage Citizenship Rosalind Fredericks traces Dakar's volatile trash politics to recalibrate how we understand urban infrastructure by emphasizing its material, social, and affective elements. She shows how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identities and mobilizing political action.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Duke University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781478002284
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    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Methode ; Feldforschung ; Kulturanthropologie ; Sozialanthropologie ; Theoriendynamik ; Wissenschaftsgeschichte ; Zukunftserwartung ; Zukunft ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equation of anthropology with ethnography—as well as the definition of the human as a social and cultural being—has remained so evident that the possibility of questioning it occurred to hardly anyone. In After Ethnos Tobias Rees endeavors to decouple anthropology from ethnography—and the human from society and culture—and explores the manifold possibilities of practicing a question-based rather than an answer-based anthropology that emanates from this decoupling. What emerges from Rees's provocations is a new understanding of anthropology as a philosophically and poetically inclined, fieldwork-based investigation of what it could mean to be human when the established concepts of the human on which anthropology has been built increasingly fail us.
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    ISBN: 9789462985674 , 9789048536825
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    Keywords: Brauch ; Kulturerbe ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Idealisierung ; Tourismus ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; China ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: The drums beat, an old man in a grand robe mutters incantations and three brides on horseback led by their grooms on foot proceed to the Naxi Wedding Courtyard, accompanied, watched and photographed the whole way by tourists, who have bought tickets for the privilege. The traditional wedding ceremonies are performed for the ethnic tourism industry in Lijiang, a World Heritage town in southwest China. This book examines how heritage interacts with social-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism, on the one hand, and the performance of ethnicity on the other. The wedding performances in Lijiang not only serve as a heritage 'product' but show how the heritage and tourism industry helps to shape people's values, dreams and expectations. This book also explores the rise of 'romantic consumerism' in contemporary China. Chinese dissatisfaction with the urban mundane leads to romanticized interests in practices and people deemed to be natural, ethnic, spiritual and aesthetic, and a search for tradition and authenticity. But what, exactly, are tradition and authenticity, and what happens to them when they are turned into performance?...
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    Nanterre : Société d'ethnologie | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9782365190497 , 9782365190244
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (96 p.)
    Series Statement: Anthropologie de la nuit
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    Keywords: Kikuyu ; Brauch ; Modernisierung ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Anthropology ; Kenia ; Afrique orientale ; Kikuyu
    Abstract: Au premier plan de l'actualité nationale, les sept millions de Kikuyu, principal groupe bantou du Kenya, sont connus depuis l'insurrection mau-mau de 1952 qui aboutit en 1963 à l'indépendance de cette ancienne colonie britannique. Près d'un demi-siècle plus tard, Michel Adam fait une incursion dans l'intimité de l'obscur chez les habitants paisibles de la circonscription d'Othaya, au pied du célèbre mont Kenya. Évoquant la mémoire toujours vivante d'un passé récent, l'auteur s'attache à décrire les transformations de la modernité : des rituels qui s'effacent, un patrimoine festif dissous dans les antiennes des nouvelles Églises, les tressaillements des conflits sociaux contemporains. Mais il laisse avant tout la parole à la nuit : l'amour et les contes, la chasse et la collecte du miel, les fantômes et les sorciers. L'aube et le crépuscule sont de faibles frontières entre soleil et lune qui se livrent un éternel combat. Accompagné par les illustrations de l'auteur, et guidé par un texte qui fourmille de notes précises et passionnantes, le lecteur voit la gazelle dik-dik, écoute l'engoulevent au crépuscule, sent le parfum des fleurs mellifères, goûte la garbure et (comme le disent les Kikuyu dans leur langue) « caresse les vaches » (guthathaya). Tout est dit avec la discrétion qui nous permet d'écouter chuchotements, non-dits et silence de cet « autre monde ».
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    ISBN: 9781350222861 , 9781783604562 , 9781783604555 , 9781783601332 , 9781783601325 , 9781783601349 , 9781783601356 , 9781783601363 , 9781848139695 , 9781848139688 , 9781848139671 , 9781848139664 , 9781780324746 , 9781780329970 , 9781783600014 , 9781783600007 , 9781780329994 , 9781780329987 , 9781783601158 , 9781783601127 , 9781783601134 , 9781783601141 , 9781783601165 , 9781780321462 , 9781848134607 , 9781848134584 , 9781848134591 , 9781780321479 , 9781848136090 , 9781780326542 , 9781848134942 , 9781780326191 , 9781848134980 , 9781780326214 , 9781780323091 , 9781848135406 , 9781780320793 , 9781780325828 , 9781848134614 , 9781848136281 , 9781780326115 , 9781848138360 , 9781848138377 , 9781848138391 , 9781848138384 , 9781780324180 , 9781783602469 , 9781783602438 , 9781783602476 , 9781783602445 , 9781783602452 , 9781783603695 , 9781783603718 , 9781783603732 , 9781783603701 , 9781783603725 , 9781848136397 , 9781780322445 , 9781842776391 , 9781842776384 , 9781848131309 , 9781780327792 , 9781848136564 , 9781780321059 , 9781780321042 , 9781780323862 , 9781848137240 , 9781780326993 , 9781780323831 , 9781780323824 , 9781780323848 , 9781780323855 , 9781848137868 , 9781780327266 , 9781783604579 , 9781783604548 , 9781783604531 , 9781780323466 , 9781780323459 , 9781780323480 , 9781780323497 , 9781780323473 , 9781780323114 , 9781780323138 , 9781780323107 , 9781780323121 , 9781780324203 , 9781780327310 , 9781848137981 , 9781848137936 , 9781780327297 , 9781848135017 , 9781780326245
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2012 ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Drogenhandel ; Protestbewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Erdölproduktion ; Erdölwirtschaft ; Politischer Konflikt ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik ; Internationale Finanzpolitik ; Debt Management ; Soziale Situation ; Kakaobaum ; Exportgut ; Cashcrops ; Fairer Handel ; Politische Reform ; Elite ; Armut ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Landnahme ; Agrobusiness ; Lebensmittelindustrie ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Development studies ; Taxation ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; China ; Westafrika ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Entwicklungsländer ; Adair Turner ; Africa:Why Economists Get It Wrong ; african arguments ; Andrew Brooks ; Between Debt and the Devil ; Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? ; corruption ; Doughnut Economics ; Ebenezer Obadare ; Ebola ; extraction industry ; good governance ; international development ; Kate Raworth ; Mariana Mazzucato ; Morten Jerven ; Pablo Yanguas ; Paul Richards ; Pentecostal Republic ; policy reform ; Robert Kuttner ; social justice ; tax evasion ; taxation ; The End of Development ; The Looting Machine ; The Value of Everything ; Tom Burgis ; Why We Lie About Aid ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number crunchers – an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or good governance. Yet it is exactly these issues that pervade conversations about taxation among policymakers, tax collectors, civil society activists, journalists and foreign aid donors in Africa today. Tax has become viewed as central to African development. Written by leading international experts, Taxing Africa offers a cutting-edge analysis on all aspects of the continent’s tax regime, displaying the crucial role such arrangements have on attempts to create social justice and push economic advancement. From tax evasion by multinational corporations and African elites to how ordinary people navigate complex webs of ‘informal’ local taxation, the book examines the potential for reform, and how space might be created for enabling locally-led strategies. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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    ISBN: 9780520299733
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 p.)
    DDC: 305.697095150903
    Keywords: History ; Asian history ; Tibetan Muslims ; Tibet ; China ; Himalayas ; Boundaries ; Transnational ; Diaspora ; Lhasa
    Abstract: "Islamic Shangri-La transports readers into the heart of the Himalayas by tracing the rise of the Tibetan Muslim (Khache) community from the early 17th century to the present. Over the past four centuries, the Tibetan Muslims advised several Dalai Lamas, contributed to Tibetan music and literature, and engaged in transregional trade with many of Tibet’s neighbors. Deftly blending contemporary media accounts and interviews with archival documents, this book brings the frustrations and hopes of Tibetan Muslims, and thus of Tibet, to life. Less a history of religion than a history of the Himalayas, the book explores the eddying currents of peoples and states generally excluded from traditional histories of Asia. Its focus on the Tibetan Muslims’ multifaceted role in Tibetan society highlights Tibet’s broader inter-Asian positioning and delves into the intertwined relationship between Tibet and Nepal, Kashmir, and other Himalayan states. The story of the Tibetan Muslims provides a new perspective on a history we thought we knew quite well. Illuminating their positioning within the dynamics of Asian state formation with a particular emphasis on the dramatic events of early to mid-20th century, the book opens an unparalleled examination of the long shadows of Tibet’s past on today’s Asia."...
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    ISBN: 9782729711849 , 9782729709327
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)
    Series Statement: Littérature & idéologies
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2000 ; Anthropologie ; Rasse ; European history ; Anthropology ; Frankreich ; Russland ; race ; racisme ; représentation ; discours ; nationalisme ; anthropologie classificatoire ; Konferenzschrift 25.05.2012-27.05.2012
    Abstract: Cet ouvrage analyse le devenir d’un « imaginaire raciologique », c’est-à-dire des représentations fondées sur l’idée de l’existence de « races » humaines – ces représentations qui se sont développées, dans le cadre d’une anthropologie classificatoire, au cours du xixe siècle, selon une pensée de type polygéniste, avec les implications racistes qu’elle a pu véhiculer ou légitimer. Cet imaginaire raciologique n’est pas sans contradiction : il postule parfois aussi bien une fixité des « races » qu’une peur qu’elles ne se mélangent. Mais dans un cas comme dans l’autre s’établissent des hiérarchies, mises au service de différents discours de domination et d’exclusion. La spécificité de l’approche comparatiste développée ici consiste à s’interroger sur la diffusion, en France, de ces discours raciologiques, mais aussi sur leurs réinterprétations (souvent mises au service d’un discours nationaliste), au xxe siècle, dans l’espace soviétique et russe, que ce soit dans la littérature ou dans des corpus de type anthropologique, sociologique, politique ou philosophique.
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    ISBN: 9789462982581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Keywords: Außenhandel ; Internationale Politik ; Grenze ; China ; Südostasien ; Zentralasien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: 'Rising China' - the nation, the notion, and the buzzword - sparks dreams and triggers fears. Borders that were closed during the Cold War era have again become zones of contact and exchange. At the same time, security concerns remain high, territorial disputes still loom large. In this context, engaging in everyday neighbouring relations has become a necessity for those living in these zones of contact and exchange. The experiences and realities of relation-making across China's borders shape life in profound and lasting ways...
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    ISBN: 9781785330834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (18 p.)
    Additional Information: Enthalten in Ownership and Nurture
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Besitz ; Eigentum ; Sachkultur ; Anthropology ; Amazonas-Gebiet ; Slavery ; Kinship ; North-Eastern Amazonia
    Abstract: The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : ANU Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781925021738 , 9781925021721
    Language: English
    DDC: 305.89915
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Aborigines ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Biography: general ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Indigenous peoples ; History ; Anthropology ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Academic Studies Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781644693285 , 9781618113511
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Purimfest ; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Middle Eastern history ; Tel Aviv ; Jewish Studies ; Anthropology ; History ; Middle East Studies
    Abstract: The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel-Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores the ethnographic dimension of Zionism. This study sheds new light on the ideological world of urban Zionism, the capitalistic aspects of Zionist culture, and the urban nature of the Zionist project, which sought to create a nation of warriors and farmers, but in fact nationalized the urban space and constructed it as its main public sphere.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : John Benjamins Publishing Company | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789027206459 , 9789027270368
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (219 p.)
    DDC: 302.2/0951
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    Keywords: Discourse studies ; China ; Communication studies
    Abstract: After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and doing things, has become an indispensable instrument for the authority to manage a fluid, increasingly fragmented, but highly dynamic and yet fragile society. Written by an international team of leading scholars, this volume examines socio-political transformations of contemporary Chinese society through a systematic account, analysis and assessment of its salient discourses and their production, circulation, negotiation, and consequences. In particular, the volume focuses on the interplay of politics and media. The book’s intended readership is academics and students of Chinese studies, language and discourse, and media and communication studies.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1306463335 , 9781306463331 , 9780520957770 , 0520957776
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 259 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.874
    Keywords: Women immigrants Social conditions ; China ; Hong Kong ; Women foreign workers Social conditions ; China ; Hong Kong ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; Women immigrants Social conditions ; Women foreign workers Social conditions ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Women foreign workers ; Social conditions ; Women immigrants ; Social conditions ; Hong Kong (China) Emigration and immigration ; China ; Hong Kong ; Hong Kong (China) Emigration and immigration ; China ; Hong Kong ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong-born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781315426570 , 9781315426563 , 9781611322927 , 9781611322934
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (159 p.)
    DDC: 305.800721
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Forschungsmethode ; Quantitative Methode ; Anthropology ; Kanada ; Australien ; chris ; islander ; methodologies ; methodology ; peoples ; quantitative ; research ; researchers ; strait ; torres
    Abstract: In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers. This book dismantles that persistent positivism with a forceful critique, then fills the void with a new paradigm for Indigenous quantitative methods, using concrete examples of research projects from First World Indigenous peoples in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Concise and accessible, it is an ideal supplementary text as well as a core component of the methodological toolkit for anyone conducting Indigenous research or using Indigenous population statistics.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520955315 , 9780520955318 , 1299533116 , 9781299533110
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 271 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 201.44
    Keywords: Shamans Russia (Federation) ; Siberia ; Shamanism Russia (Federation) ; Siberia ; Shamans ; Shamanism ; Shamanism ; Shamans ; Schamanismus ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Social & Cultural Anthropology ; Civilization ; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Spirituality ; Shamanism ; Colonization ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Siberia (Russia) Religious life and customs ; Siberia (Russia) Civilization ; Siberia (Russia) Colonization ; Siberia (Russia) Religious life and customs ; Siberia (Russia) Civilization ; Siberia (Russia) Colonization ; Sibirien ; Russia (Federation) ; Siberia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history."--
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    Uppsala; London : The Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books (Bloomsbury) | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781350218130 , 9781848138841 , 9781848138827 , 9781848138834 , 9781848138858
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 p.)
    Series Statement: Africa Now
    DDC: 327.16096
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    Keywords: Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Friedenssicherung ; Politisches System ; Informelle Organisation ; Machtmissbrauch ; Anthropology ; Africa ; Afrika ; Conflicts ; Foreign intervention ; Dispute settlement ; International politics ; International relations ; State ; Local government ; Political power ; Informal sector ; Case studies ; Africa ; Peacebuilding ; Post-conflict reconstruction ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities are very much informal in character, with informal actors, including so-called Big Men, often using their positions in the formal structure as a means to reach their own goals. Through a variety of in-depth case studies, including the DRC, Sierra Leone and Liberia, this comprehensive volume shows how important informal political and economic networks are in many of the continent's conflict areas. Moreover, it demonstrates that without a proper understanding of the impact of these networks, attempts to formalize African states, particularly those emerging from wars, will be in vain.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520951778 , 0520951778
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Harcourt, A.H. (Alexander H.) Human biogeography
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Human geography ; Physical anthropology ; Biogeography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; SCIENCE ; Earth Sciences ; Geography ; Biogeography ; Human geography ; Physical anthropology ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Anthropogeography & Human Ecology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In this innovative, wide-ranging synthesis of anthropology and biogeography, Alexander Harcourt tells how and why our species came to be distributed around the world. He explains our current understanding of human origins, tells how climate determined our spread, and describes the barriers that delayed and directed migrating peoples. He explores the rich and complex ways in which our anatomy, physiology, cultural diversity, and population density vary from region to region in the areas we inhabit. The book closes with chapters on how human cultures have affected each other's geographic distributions, how non-human species have influenced human distribution, and how humans have reduced the ranges of many other species while increasing the ranges of others. Throughout, Harcourt compares what we understand of human biogeography to non-human primate biogeography
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520952249 , 0520952243
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (316 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: California studies in food and culture 34
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Curried cultures
    DDC: 394.120954
    Keywords: Food Social aspects ; South Asia ; Food habits South Asia ; Cosmopolitanism South Asia ; Nationalism South Asia ; Globalization Social aspects ; Food Social aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; Food habits ; Nationalism ; Cosmopolitanism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions ; HISTORY ; Social History ; Cosmopolitanism ; Food habits ; Food ; Social aspects ; Globalization ; Social aspects ; Nationalism ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Manners & Customs ; South Asia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attention to this phenomenon
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    Paris : Éditions de la Sorbonne | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9782859446710
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p.)
    Series Statement: Itinéraires
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    Keywords: Feldforschung ; Ethnomethodologie ; Anthropology ; Neukaledonien ; anthropologie ; méthodologie ; conflit ; Nouvelle-Calédonie ; récit personnel ; épistémologie de science sociale
    Abstract: Au-delà de la mise en discussion d’une certaine position théorique (pragmatique et historiciste) dans l’écriture des sciences sociales, et en particulier de l’anthropologie, le sens de cette publication ne saurait être que de marquer l’inscription du travail universitaire dans une étrange communauté, au sein de laquelle humanités et sciences sociales ne s’opposent pas, et que règlent la liberté des chemins de pensée et le goût de la transmission, par la parole et par les livres. Des lectures de Wittgenstein qu’a proposées Jean Bazin, j’ai retenu l’horizon d’une écriture déflationniste, et d’une visée déceptive relativement à nos capacités d’explication – il y a déjà tellement à faire en se donnant pour tâche de décrire notre monde de manière compréhensive. Mais c’est l’enquête ethnographique et les rencontres qu’elle m’a permis de faire qui constituent le noyau subjectif de ma réflexion épistémologique, dans la fidélité aux relations nouées avec mes amis kanaks.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520947634 , 0520947630
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxiv, 232 p.) , ill., maps.
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    Series Statement: Asia : local studies/global themes 18
    Series Statement: Asia 18
    Series Statement: local studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) Coming to terms with the nation
    DDC: 305.800951
    Keywords: Ethnology History ; 20th century ; China ; Ethnicity China ; Minorities Government policy ; China ; Minorities China ; Ethnology History 20th century ; Minorities ; Minorities Government policy ; Ethnicity ; 20th century ; Government policy ; Social Science ; China ; Ethnicity ; Ethnology ; History ; Minorities ; Population ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; HISTORY ; Asia ; General ; Minorities ; Government policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Electronic books ; China Population ; China ; China Population ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie)
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520948556 , 0520948556
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (291 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Eller, Cynthia Gentlemen and Amazons : The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900
    DDC: 306.859
    Keywords: Amazone ; Women, Prehistoric ; Religion, Prehistoric ; Matriarchy ; Matrilineal kinship ; Patriarchy ; Feminist theory ; History ; Social Science ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Feminist theory ; Matriarchy ; Matrilineal kinship ; Patriarchy ; Religion, Prehistoric ; Women, Prehistoric ; Matriarchat ; Mythos ; Urgesellschaft ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Prehistoric Anthropology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520948563 , 0520948564
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 334 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: ACLS Humanites E-book
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Benedict, Carol (Carol Ann), 1955- Golden-silk smoke
    DDC: 394.140951
    Keywords: Tobacco History ; China ; Tobacco Social aspects ; China ; Smoking History ; China ; China ; Tobacco History ; Tobacco Social aspects ; Smoking History ; HISTORY ; Asia ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions ; Smoking ; Tobacco ; Tobacco ; Social aspects ; History ; China ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: "From the long-stemmed pipe to snuff, the water pipe, hand-rolled cigarettes, and finally, manufactured cigarettes, the history of tobacco in China is the fascinating story of a commodity that became a hallmark of modern mass consumerism. Carol Benedict follows the spread of Chinese tobacco use from the sixteenth century, when it was introduced to China from the New World, through the development of commercialized tobacco cultivation, and to the present day. Along the way, she analyzes the factors that have shaped China's highly gendered tobacco cultures, and shows how they have evolved within a broad, comparative world-historical framework. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources--gazetteers, literati jottings (biji), Chinese materia medica, Qing poetry, modern short stories, late Qing and early Republican newspapers, travel memoirs, social surveys, advertisements, and more--Golden-Silk Smoke not only uncovers the long and dynamic history of tobacco in China but also sheds new light on global histories of fashion and consumption"--
    Abstract: "Tobacco has been pervasive in China almost since its introduction from the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century. One-third of the world's smokers--over 350 million--now live in China, and they account for 25 percent of worldwide smoking-related deaths. This book examines the deep roots of China's contemporary "cigarette culture" and smoking epidemic and provides one of the first comprehensive histories of Chinese consumption in global and comparative perspective"--
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520950146 , 0520950143
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 310 p.) , ill., maps.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Morning, Ann Juanita, 1968- Nature of race
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Race ; Racism in anthropology ; Racism in education ; Racism in textbooks ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Race ; Racism in anthropology ; Racism in education ; Racism in textbooks ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Physical Anthropology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction: what is race? -- What do we know about scientific and popular concepts of race? -- Textbook race: lessons on human difference -- Teaching race: scientists on human difference -- Learning race: students on human difference -- Race concepts beyond the classroom -- Conclusion: the redemption of essentialism
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520950344 , 0520950348
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 455 p.) , maps.
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    Series Statement: Asia Pacific modern 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hershatter, Gail Gender of memory
    DDC: 305.4889510514309045
    Keywords: Rural women Social conditions ; China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; Rural women Economic conditions ; China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; Socialism China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; Rural women Social conditions ; Rural women Economic conditions ; Socialism ; Rural Population ; Socialism ; Women ; Social Science China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; HISTORY ; Asia ; General ; Rural women ; Economic conditions ; Rural women ; Social conditions ; Socialism ; History ; China ; China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; Electronic books History ; Electronic books ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group-rural women-at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting-even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789048510757 , 9789089641441
    Language: English
    Series Statement: American Studies
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    Keywords: Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Elfter September ; Society & culture: general ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; USA ; Sociology ; History ; Anthropology ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This groundbreaking volume explores the multicultural debate that has evolved in the United States and Europe since the cataclysmic events of 9/11. Instead of suggesting closure by presenting a unified narrative about cultural diversity, national identity, and social stratification, the essays in this well-balanced collection present a variety of perspectives, each highlighting the undiminished relevance of key issues such as immigration, assimilation, and citizenship, while also pointing to unresolved conflicts over universalism, religion, and tolerance. Most importantly, this volume shows that the struggle over multiculturalism is not limited to the political domain, but also has profound cultural implications. American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives is an invaluable, thought-provoking addition to the debate about multiculturalism as central to the study of the United States in a global context.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : ANU Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781921536298 , 9781921536281
    Language: English
    DDC: 305.80099
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kulturkontakt ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Kolonialismus ; Entdeckung ; Australasian & Pacific history ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Ozeanien ; Pazifischer Raum ; Anthropology ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of 'encounter' rather than the more common idea of 'first contact' for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of 'strangers' or 'others' but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.
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    ISBN: 9780520943360 , 0520943368
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vii, 341 p.) , ill., maps
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    Series Statement: Origins of human behavior and culture 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pattern and process in cultural evolution
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Human beings Origin ; Human evolution ; Anthropology ; Human ecology ; Archaeology ; Human beings Origin ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Physical ; Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Human beings ; Origin ; Human ecology ; Human evolution ; Anthropologie ; Archäologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ethnologie ; Hominisation ; Kulturelle Evolution ; Ontwikkelingsmodellen ; Physical Anthropology ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; changement (sociologie) ; évolution ; transmission culturelle ; études diverses ; anthropologie culturelle ; archéologie ; études diverses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Pattern and process in cultural evolution : an introduction /Stephen Shennan --Understanding cultural transmission --Placing archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution /Alex Mesoudi and Michael J. O'Brien --Human communication as niche construction /Robert Aunger --Modes of transmission and material culture patterns in craft skills /Robert Hosfield --Linking pattern to process in cultural evolution : explaining material culture diversity among the northern Khanty of northwest Siberia /Peter Jordan --Tangled trees : modeling material culture evolution as host-associate cospeciation /Felix Riede --The evolution of material culture diversity among Iranian tribal populations /Jamshid J. Tehrani and Mark Collard --Evolutionary explanation and the record of interest : using evolutionary archaeology and dual inheritance theory to explain the archaeological record /Ethan E. Cochrane --Identifying iron production lineages : a case study in northwest Wales /Michael F. Charlton --Testing evolutionary hypotheses --Quantitative analysis of macroevolutionary patterning in technological evolution : bicycle design from 1800 to 2000 /Mark W. Lake and Jay Venti --Innovation diffusion and traveling waves /James Steele --Explaining global patterns in lower palaeolithic technology : simulations of hominin dispersal and cultural transmission using stepping out /Sam Smith, John Hughes, and Steven Mithen --Population history and the evolution of mesolithic arrowhead technology in south Scandinavia /Kevan Edinborough --Experimentation and innovation in the archaeological record : a case study in technological evolution from Kodiak, Alaska /Ben Fitzhugh and A. Kate Trusler --Social evolution --Mind the bonding gap : constraints on the evolution of hominin societies /R.I.M. Dunbar --Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation : a maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices /Laura Fortunato and Ruth Mace --Parent-offspring conflict in marriage : implications for social evolution and material culture among the Ju/'hoansi bushmen /Polly Wiessner --Prestige goods and the formation of political hierarchy : a costly signaling model /Aimée M. Plourde --Population and warfare : a test of the Turchin model in Pueblo societies /Timothy A. Kohler, Sarah Cole, and Stanca Ciupe --An ecological model for the emergence of institutionalized social hierarchies on California's northern Channel Islands /Douglas J. Kennett [and others] --Population, sociopolitical simplification, and cultural evolution of Levantine neolithic villages /Ian Kuijt.
    Abstract: This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. While many recent works on cultural evolution adopt a specific theoretical framework, such as dual inheritance theory or human behavioral ecology, Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes empirical analysis and includes authors who employ a range of backgrounds and methods
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789048506323 , 9789089640475
    Language: English
    Series Statement: IMISCOE Research
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Geschichte 1850-2006 ; Illegale Einwanderung ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; Migration ; Illegalität ; Geschlecht ; Globalisierung ; Anthropology ; Sociology ; Anthropology ; Sociology ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Two issues come to the fore in current debates over migration: illegal migration and the role of gender in illegal migration. This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective, investigating definitions of citizenship and the differences in mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion for men and women, producing a comprehensive account of illegal migration in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Mexico, Malaysia, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East over the nineteenth- and the twentieth centuries. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520916128
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (171 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Global, Area, and International Archive
    DDC: 305.409510904
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; China
    Abstract: This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9780520927537 , 0520927532 , 1423745426 , 9781423745426
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 378 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Studies on China 28
    Parallel Title: Print version Empire at the margins
    DDC: 305.8009510903
    Keywords: Ethnicity History ; China ; Ethnicity History ; Ethnicity History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; Asia ; General ; Ethnicity ; China ; History ; Ethnic relations ; Ethnicity ; Ethnische Identität ; Grenzgebiet ; History ; Electronic books ; China Ethnic relations ; History ; China ; China Ethnic relations ; History ; China Ethnic relations ; History ; China ; China ; Ethnic relations ; History ; China ; China ; Electronic books History ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Focusing on the Ming and Qing eras, this book analyses crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional and religious identities. It demonstrates how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Identity at the heart of empireEthnicity in the Qing Eight Banners / Mark C. Elliott -- Making Mongols / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- "A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law / Jonathan N. Lipman -- Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers -- The Qing and Islam on the western frontier / James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby -- The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier / John E. Herman -- Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest -- The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity / David Faure -- Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century / Donald S. Sutton -- Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 / Anne Csete -- Part IV. Uncharted boundaries -- Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" / Wing-hoi Chan -- Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780203338582 , 9780415342544
    Language: English
    DDC: 303.48094
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Moderne ; Industrialisierung ; Modernisierung ; Economics ; Economic theory & philosophy ; International economics ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Business & management ; Europa ; Ostasien ; China ; Japan ; medieval ; society ; imperial ; china ; song ; dynasty ; dutch ; republic ; star ; demons
    Abstract: Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be possible, change must be institutionalized. Taking a global view, Ringmar investigates the implications of his conclusion on issues facing the developing world today.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780203491140 , 9780415254434
    Language: English
    DDC: 394
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    Keywords: Geschenk ; Anthropologie ; Sozialer Austausch ; Anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; gift ; exchange ; total ; social ; fact ; north ; west ; coast ; kula ; trader
    Abstract: Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, it provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly original hypothetical approach takes gift-theory - the science of obligation and reciprocity - as the paradigm for a virtual enquiry which explores how the anthropological discipline has evolved historically, how it is applied in practice and how it can be argued with critically. By asking students to participate in projected situations and dilemmas, and in arguments about the form and nature of enquiry, it offers working practice of dealing with the obstacles and choices involved in anthropological study. * From an expert teacher whose methods are tried and tested * Comprehensive and fun course ideal for intermediate-level students * Clearly defines the functions of anthropology, and its key theories and arguments * Effectively teaches core study skills for exam success and progressive learning.
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    Paris : CNRS Éditions | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9782271078087 , 9782271062857
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 p.)
    Series Statement: CNRS Anthropologie
    DDC: 306.01
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    Keywords: Elias, Norbert ; Anthropologie ; Sociology ; Anthropology ; configuration (sociologie) ; processus de civilisation ; modèle (sociologie) ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: « J’ai une curiosité immense pour tout ce qui est inconnu », aimait à dire Norbert Elias (1897-1990). Tout lecteur qui partage cet enthousiasme intellectuel découvrira dans ce livre collectif les travaux fondamentaux d’Elias discutés par des anthropologues et des ethnologues, mais aussi par des historiens et des sociologues de notoriété internationale. Cette réflexion pluridisciplinaire interroge l’œuvre plurielle d’Elias pour en situer l’importance dans l’anthropologie contemporaine, aussi bien en Europe qu’en Amérique. Les principaux concepts forgés par Elias – et désormais largement utilisés dans les sciences humaines – sont soumis ici à un réexamen critique sans complaisance (processus de civilisation, homo clausus, autocontrôle des affects, configuration sociale, distanciation méthodique, etc.). Ce livre s’attache aussi à mettre à l’épreuve du monde d’aujourd’hui les théories d’Elias et interroge leur pertinence pour une compréhension anthropologique de nos façons d’habiter, d’éduquer nos enfants, d’éprouver nos corps, de faire de la politique, de lire des fictions, de mourir. En somme, le réel intérêt anthropologique de Norbert Elias est bien de nous aider à penser notre culture dans ses formes les plus incorporées et ses modes les plus institutionnalisés, mais aussi de nous encourager, souvent très concrètement, à penser cette pensée de l’interdépendance.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520927940 , 052092794X , 1417508191 , 9781417508198
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 333 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China 2
    Parallel Title: Print version Is Taiwan Chinese?
    DDC: 305.89925
    Keywords: Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan ; Ethnicity History ; 20th century ; China ; Nationalism History ; 20th century ; Taiwan ; Nationalism History ; 20th century ; China ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity ; History ; 20th century ; China ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity 20th century ; History ; Ethnicity History 20th century ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity 20th century ; History ; Ethnicity History 20th century ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Ethnic relations ; Ethnicity ; International relations ; Nationalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China ; China Relations ; Taiwan ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations ; History ; 20th century ; China Relations ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations 20th century ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China Relations ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations 20th century ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou ; Taiwan ; China ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In a unique comparison of studies drawn from both Taiwan and China, Brown's book shows how identity is shaped by social experience - not culture and ancestry, as is commonly claimed in political rhetoric
    Description / Table of Contents: What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem"Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history -- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change -- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change -- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei -- Theory and the politics of reunification : understanding past choices and future options.
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    ISBN: 0520927826 , 1417522607 , 9780520927827 , 9781417522606
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 337 pages)
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    DDC: 305.4/0951
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Mujeres / China / Historia ; Mujeres / Korea / Historia ; Confucianismo / Aspectos sociales ; Femmes / Chine / Histoire ; Femmes / Japon / Histoire ; Femmes / Corée / Histoire ; Confucianisme / Aspect social ; Femmes dans le confucianisme / Chine ; Femmes dans le confucianisme / Japon ; Femmes dans le confucianisme / Corée ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies ; HISTORY / Asia / General ; Confucianism / Social aspects ; Women ; Vrouwen ; Confucianisme ; Frau ; Konfuzianismus ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Women History ; Women History ; Women History ; Confucianism Social aspects ; Konfuzianismus ; Frau ; Asien ; China ; Japan ; Korea ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Korea ; Konfuzianismus ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Japan ; Konfuzianismus ; Frau ; Geschichte ; China ; Konfuzianismus ; Frau ; Geschichte
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references and index , pt. 1. Scripts of male dominance. The patriarchal family paradigm in eighth-century Japan / Hiroko Sekiguchi ; The last classical female sovereign: Kōken-Shōtoku Tennō / Joan R. Piggott ; Representation of females in twelfth-century Korean historiography / Hai-soon Lee -- The presence and absence of female musicians and music in China / Joseph S.C. Lam -- pt. 2. Propagating Confucian virtues. Woomen and the transmission of Confucian culture in Song China / Jian Zang ; Propagating female virtues in Chosŏn Korea / Martina Deuchler ; State indoctrination of filial piety in Tokugawa Japan: sons and daughters in the Official records of filial piety / Noriko Sugano -- pt. 3. Female education in practice. Norms and texts for women's education in Tokugawa Japan / Martha C. Tocco ; Competing claims on womanly virtue in late imperial China / Fangqin Du and Susan Mann -- pt. 4. Corporeal and textual expressions of female subjectivity. Discipline and transformation: body and practice in the lives of Daoist holy women of Tang China / Suzanne E. Cahill ; Versions and subversions: patriarchy and polygamy in Korean narratives / JaHyan Kim Haboush
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520935303
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (476 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes v.4
    DDC: 305.30951
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    Keywords: Mann ; Geschlechterrolle ; Frau ; China
    Abstract: The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1417508183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 460 Seiten) , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities
    DDC: 305.30951
    Keywords: Geschichte 1644-2002 ; Geschichte 1650-1990 ; Femininity - China ; Masculinity - China ; Sex role - China ; Femininity ; Masculinity ; Sex role ; Geschlechterrolle ; China ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschichte 1644-2002 ; China ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschichte 1650-1990
    Note: pt. 1.Gender and the law (Qing dynasty).Femininity in flux: gendered virtue and social conflict in the mid-Qing courtroom /Janet M. Theiss.Dangerous males, vulnerable males, and polluted males: the regulation of masculinity in Qing dynasty law /Matthew H. Sommer --pt. 2.Ideals of marriage and family (mid-Qing dynasty and early Republican era).Grooming a daughter for marriage: brides and wives in the mid-Qing period /Susan Mann."The truths I have learned": nationalism, family reform, and male identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923 /Susan L. Glosser --pt. 3.Gender in literary traditions (May fourth era to Reform era).Invention and intervention: the making of a female tradition in modern Chinese literature /Lydia H. Liu.The self loving the self: men and connoisseurship in modern Chinese literature /Wendy Larson --pt. 4.Dangerous women and dangerous men (late Ming dynasty to early Communist period).Modernizing sex, sexing modernity: prostitution in early-twentieth-century S , pt. 7.Shifting contexts of gender and sexuality (Reform era). Past, perfect or imperfect: changing images of the ideal wife /Harriet Evans.Proper men and proper women: parental affection in the Chinese family /William Jankowiak --pt. 8.Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity (Reform era).Gender and internal Orientalism in China /Louisa Schein.Tradition and the gender of civility /Ralph Litzinger --Afterword:putting gender at the center /Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom,Susan Brownell.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520223400 , 0520223403 , 9780520223417 , 0520223411 , 9780520924918 , 0520924916 , 0585389357 , 9780585389356
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 272 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Cultural curiosity
    DDC: 305.8951
    Keywords: Chinese Foreign countries ; Ethnicity China ; National characteristics, Chinese China ; Chinesen ; Ethnicity ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Chinese ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Ethnicity ; Chinese ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Chinese ; Foreign countries ; Ethnicity ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Ausland ; Ethnizität ; Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East ; History & Archaeology ; East Asia ; Chinesen ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This is an anthology of autobiographical essays of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these pieces, full of the details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subsequent journey each author made to China
    Description / Table of Contents: Full circle / Nancy WorkThrough a window / Graham Chan -- Travels afar / Maria Tham -- In search of Lin Jia Zhuang / Milan L. Lin-Rodrigo -- No roots, old roots / Graziella Hsu -- My father's land / Meilin Ching -- Ears attuned to two cultures / Henry Chan -- Guilt trip to China / Richard Chu -- In search of my ancestral home / Myra Sidharta -- A yellow American in China / Brad Wong -- One family, two fates / Carolyn Koo -- In my father's shadow / William Shang -- Coming home / Lily Wu
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520226232 , 9780520226234 , 0520226313 , 9780520226319 , 9780520935549 , 0520935543 , 0585389535 , 9780585389530
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 360 pages) , illustrations, maps
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    Parallel Title: Print version Age of wild ghosts
    DDC: 305.80095135
    Keywords: Ethnology China ; Yunnan Sheng ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Ethnology ; Social conditions ; Ethnosoziologie ; Etnografie ; Sociale aspecten ; Ethnologie ; Chine ; Yunnan (Chine) ; Yi (peuple de Chine) ; Moeurs et coutumes ; Yunnan Sheng (China) Social conditions ; China ; Yunnan Sheng ; Yunnan Sheng (China) Social conditions ; Yunnan Sheng (China) Social conditions ; Yunnan ; China ; Yunnan Sheng ; Yunnan (Chine) ; Conditions sociales ; 1949-1976 ; Yunnan (Chine) ; Conditions rurales ; 1949-1976 ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine of the 1950s to the 1990s is traced in this text. This era saw great changes in the way that communities were run, including the reintroduction of the headman-ship system
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 052093525X , 0585390215 , 9780520935259 , 9780585390215
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 321 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies on China 26
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    DDC: 951/.3004951
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    Keywords: HISTORY. ; Yi (Chinese people) ; Etnische minderheden ; Cultuur ; Geschichte ; Kultur ; Yi (Chinese people) ; Yi ; Minderheitenpolitik ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Yi
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index , Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book brings this little-known part of the world to life, describing its history, traditional society, and recent social changes , Reconstructing Yi history from Yi records - Wu Gu -- - Nzymo as seen in some Yi classical books - Wu Jingzhong -- - Comparative approach to lineages among the Xiao Liangshan Nuosu and Han - Ann Maxwell Hill and Eric Diehl -- - Preferential bilateral-cross-cousin marriage among the Nuosu in Liangshan - Lu Hui -- Names and genealogies among the Nuosu of Liangshan - Ma Erzi -- - Homicide and homicide cases in Old Liangshan - Qubi Shimei and Ma Erzi -- - Searching for the heroic age of the Yi people of Liangshan - Liu Yu -- - On the nature and transmission of Bimo knowledge in Liangshan - Bamo Ayi -- - Cold funeral of the Nisu Yi - Li Yongxiang -- - Valley-house - Erik Mueggler -- - Native place and ethnic relations in Lunan Yi autonomous county, Yunnan - Margaret Byrne Swain -- - Language policy for the Yi - David Bradley -- - Nationalities conflict and ethnicity in the People's Republic of China, with special reference to the Yi in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture - Thomas Heberer -- - Education and ethnicity among the Liangshan Yi - Martin Schoenhals -- - Nuosu women's economic role in Ningland, Yunnan, under the reforms - Wu Ga (Luovu Vugashynyumo) -- - Yi health care system in Liangshan and Chuxiong - Liu Xiaoxing
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    ISBN: 9780520925823 , 0520925823 , 0585391688 , 9780585391687
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxi, 267 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Anthropology of the subject
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Anthropology Philosophy ; Anthropology Philosophy ; Anthropology Philosophy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Anthropology ; Philosophy ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Anthropology - General ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 16. The Single Shape of Metaphor in All ThingsGlossary of Unfamiliar Concepts; Notes; Index.
    Abstract: An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in The Invention of Culture and Symbols That Stand for Themselves, respectively), now does the same for the "subject" and subjectivity
    Abstract: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Abstract of the Argument; Introduction; 1. To Be Caught in Indra's Net; 2. Where Is the Meaning in a Trope?; 3. A Sociality Reperceived; 4. Our Sense of Their Humor: Their Sense of Ours; 5. The Story of Eve; 6. The Icon of Incest; 7. The Queen's Daughter and the King's Son; 8. The Consumer Consumed; 9. Echolocation; 10. Imaginary Spaces; 11. The Cakra of Johann Christian Bach; 12. The Near-Life Experience; 13. Reinventing the Wheel; 14. The Physical Education of the Wheel; 15. Sex in a Mirror.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520219236 , 052092441X , 1597344826 , 9780520924413 , 9781597344821
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 435 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies on China 23
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    DDC: 951.05
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    Keywords: 1900 - 1999 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; HISTORY. ; Cities and towns ; Civilization ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Geschichte ; Stadt ; Cities and towns History 20th century ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Zivilisation ; Stadtentwicklung ; Modernisierung ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; China ; Stadtentwicklung ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; China ; Modernisierung ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; China ; Zivilisation ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction: interpreting Chinese modernity, 1900-1950 / Wen-hsin Yeh -- The cultural construction of modernity in urban Shanghai: some preliminary explorations / Leo Ou-fan Lee -- Marketing medicine and advertising dreams in China, 1900-1950 / Sherman Cochran -- "A high place is no better than a low place": the city in the making of modern China / David Strand -- Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928-1937 / William C. Kirby -- Hierarchical modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a model for Catholic community in North China / Richard Madsen -- The grounding of cosmopolitans: merchants and local cultures in Guangdong / Helen F. Siu -- Zhang Taiyan's concept of the individual and modern Chinese identity / Wang Hui -- Crime or punishment? On the forensic discourse of modern Chinese literature / David Der-wei Wang -- Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and retribution in wartime Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman Jr. -- Of authenticity and woman: personal narratives of middle-class women in modern China / Prasenjit Duara -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's War of Resistance / Paul G. Pickowicz , This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of 20th-century Chinese identity. The contributors argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of 20th-century Chinese history
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520922389 , 0520922387 , 0585390118 , 9780585390116
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xviii, 440 pages) , map
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    Parallel Title: Print version Revolutionizing the family
    DDC: 306.850951
    Keywords: Families China ; Family policy China ; Families ; Family policy ; Families ; Family policy ; Family China ; Families ; Family policy ; Social conditions ; Familie ; Soziale Situation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Divorce ; Chine ; Famille ; Chine ; Politique familiale ; Chine ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; China Social conditions ; 1949-1976 ; China ; China Social conditions 1949-1976 ; China Social conditions 1949-1976 ; China ; Chine ; Conditions sociales ; 1949-1976 ; China ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In contrast to previous studies of the Marriage Law in China between 1949 and 1968, this text argues that the law reshaped marriage and family relationships in significant - but often unintended - ways throughout the Maoist period
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520922389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (460 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1949-1968 ; Familie ; Sozialer Wandel ; China
    Abstract: In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472904259 , 9780472109890
    Language: English
    DDC: 304.632096711
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    Keywords: Bangangte ; Gender studies, gender groups ; Kamerun ; Anthropology ; Gender Studies ; Health & Medicine ; African Studies
    Abstract: Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility in a small, mountainous African kingdom to explore more general notions of gender, modernity, and cultural identity. In the Cameroon grassfields, an area of high fertility, women hold a paradoxical fear of infertility. By combining symbolic, political-economic, and historical analyses, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg traces the way reproductive threat is invoked in struggles over gender and ethnic identities. Women's fears of reproductive disorders, she finds, are an important mode of expression for their worries about much larger issues, such as rural poverty, brought about or exacerbated by political and economic changes in this century. A lively case study of an infertile queen who flees the palace sets the stage for discussions of the ethnographic and historical setting, the symbolism of fertility and infertility, and the development and interaction of cosmopolitan and ethno-gynecologies. The book concludes with an analysis of the links between women's role in human reproduction and the divine king's role in social reproduction, both occurring in the rapidly changing context of a multiethnic African nation. Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs underscores the relevance of medical anthropology to other anthropological specializations, as well as to epidemiologists, population specialists, and development planners. It should reach a broad audience in medical anthropology, public health, and women's studies.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520919488 , 0520919483 , 0585292779 , 9780585292779
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xviii, 326 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Destination culture
    DDC: 306/.074
    Keywords: Tourism ; Culture ; Museum exhibits ; Heritage tourism ; Ethnological museums and collections ; Ethnological museums and collections ; Heritage tourism ; Museum exhibits ; Tourism ; Culture ; ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES ; Popular Culture ; Culture ; Ethnological museums and collections ; Heritage tourism ; Museum exhibits ; Tourism ; Ferntourismus ; Volkskundemuseum ; Ethnologie ; Tourismusindustrie ; Tentoonstellingen ; Etnografie ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Anthropology - General ; Cultura ; Exposições museológicas ; Turismo ; Museus etnográficos ; Acervo museológico ; Tourisme culturel ; Écomusées ; Muséologie ; Ethnologie ; Musées ; Tourisme ; Völkerkundemuseum ; Sammlung ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Ausstellung ; Kulturerbe ; Museum ; Bildungstourismus
    Abstract: Destination Culture deals with agencies of display in museums, festivals, world's fair, historical recreations, and tourist attractions. Drawing on the history of the avant-garde and the implications of its practices, Destination Culture attempts to theorize the artifact and the logic of exhibition in the context of lively debates about the death of museums, ascendancy of tourism, production of heritage, limits of multiculturalism, social efficacy of the arts, and circulation of value in the life world
    Abstract: The agency of display: Objects of ethnography ; Exhibiting Jews -- A second life as heritage: Destination museum ; Ellis Island ; Plimoth Plantation -- Undoing the ethnographic: Confusing pleasures ; Secrets of encounter -- Circulating Value: Disputing Taste.
    Abstract: With the question, "What does it mean to show?", the author explores the agency of display in museums and tourist attractions. She looks at how objects are made to perform their meaning by being collected and how techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey a powerful message
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-314) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520206854 , 0520206851 , 9780520208612 , 0520208617 , 9780520919006 , 0520919009 , 0585104336 , 9780585104331
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 419 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Technology and gender
    DDC: 305.30951
    Keywords: Sex role History ; China ; Women Social conditions ; China ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; China ; Rôle selon le sexe Histoire ; Chine ; Femmes Conditions sociales ; Chine ; Technologie Aspect social ; Histoire ; Chine ; Women Social conditions ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Sex role History ; Sex role History ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Women Social conditions ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Women ; Social conditions ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Gender Studies & Sexuality ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; History ; Sex role ; China Social conditions ; 960-1644 ; China Social conditions ; 1644-1912 ; Chine Conditions sociales ; 960-1644 ; Chine Conditions sociales ; 1644-1912 ; China ; China Social conditions 960-1644 ; China Social conditions 1644-1912 ; China Social conditions 1644-1912 ; China Social conditions 960-1644 ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: List of Chinese Dynasties -- Introduction: The Framework of Everyday Life: Technology, Women and Cultural History -- pt. 1. Building a Tradition: The Construction of Chinese Social Space. 1. House Form and Meaning. 2. Encoding Patriarchy. 3. The Text of the Chinese House -- pt. 2. Women's Work: Weaving New Patterns in the Social Fabric. 4. Fabrics of Power: The Canonical Meanings of Women's Work. 5. Economic Expansion and Changing Division of Labor. 6. Women's Work and Women's Place -- pt. 3. Meanings of Motherhood: Reproductive Technologies and Their Uses. 7. Medical History and Gender History. 8. Reproductive Medicine and the Dual Nature of Fertility. 9. Reproductive Hierarchies. Conclusion: Gynotechnics and Civilization.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Chinese DynastiesIntroduction: The Framework of Everyday Life: Technology, Women and Cultural History -- Pt. 1. Building a Tradition: The Construction of Chinese Social Space. 1. House Form and Meaning. 2. Encoding Patriarchy. 3. The Text of the Chinese House -- Pt. 2. Women's Work: Weaving New Patterns in the Social Fabric. 4. Fabrics of Power: The Canonical Meanings of Women's Work. 5. Economic Expansion and Changing Division of Labor. 6. Women's Work and Women's Place -- Pt. 3. Meanings of Motherhood: Reproductive Technologies and Their Uses. 7. Medical History and Gender History. 8. Reproductive Medicine and the Dual Nature of Fertility. 9. Reproductive Hierarchies. Conclusion: Gynotechnics and Civilization.
    Note: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-409) and index. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-409) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520204393 , 0520204395 , 9780520917552 , 0520917553 , 0585067716 , 9780585067711
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 591 pages, [26] pages of plates) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Dangerous pleasures
    DDC: 306.740951132
    Keywords: Prostitution History ; 20th century ; China ; Shanghai ; Women Social conditions ; China ; Shanghai ; Women Economic conditions ; China ; Shanghai ; Women Social conditions ; Women Economic conditions ; Prostitution History 20th century ; Prostitution History 20th century ; Women Social conditions ; Women Economic conditions ; Sex Work ; Mujeres en China Condiciones sociales ; Shanghai ; Mujeres en China Condiciones económicas ; Shanghai ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; Prostitution ; Social conditions ; Women ; Economic conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Prostitution ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Prostituees ; Prostitutie ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Gender Studies & Sexuality ; Femmes ; Chine ; Shanghai ; Conditions sociales ; Prostitution ; Chine ; Shanghai ; Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Frau ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; History ; Shanghai (China) History ; 20th century ; Shanghai (China) Social conditions ; Shanghai (China) Social conditions ; Shanghai (China) History 20th century ; Shanghai (China) History 20th century ; Shanghai (China) Social conditions ; China ; Shanghai, China Historia ; Siglo XX ; Shanghai, China Condiciones sociales ; China ; Shanghai ; Schanghai ; China ; Shanghai ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: This pioneering work exam ...
    Abstract: pt. I. Histories and Hierarchies. Ch. 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering. Ch. 2. Classifying and Counting -- pt. II. Pleasures. Ch. 3. Rules of the House. Ch. 4. Affairs of the Heart. Ch. 5. Tricks of the Trade. Ch. 6. Careers -- pt. III. Dangers. Ch. 7. Trafficking. Ch. 8. Law and Disorder. Ch. 9. Disease -- pt. IV. Interventions. Ch. 10. Reformers. Ch. 11. Regulators. Ch. 12. Revolutionaries -- pt. V. Contemporary Conversations. Ch. 13. Naming. Ch. 14. Explaining. Ch. 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia -- Glossary of Chinese Characters.
    Note: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Page [ii]. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-576) and index. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-576) and index
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